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Stacey’s personality test
(1) It is 2012. You follow your boss at a sales conference. Throughout her presentation – on marketing a new DVD of Oliver Stone’s JFK – she makes wildly erroneous statements, e.g. that Gerald…
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Some Wild Embrace by Timothy O’Keefe
“Poetry is the impossibility of plainness, in plainest form.” —Susan Howe I come back to Howe’s definition often and eagerly. For reassurance, for solidarity, for hope. It seems to me a singular, aphoristic…
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This just in . . . Nin Andrews’ “Thups” featured on NPR.org
(Ed note: NPR's All Things Considered's contest has a simple premise: Listeners send in original short stories that can be read in three minutes or less. This week is Round 8, for which contestants…
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Where did the cops come from?
The word cops has this derivation: (1) It is an acronym for the Committee on Public Safety in France during the French Revolution.(2) It refers to the copper badges worn by the first New…
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Thought Moves (a collage) by Timothy O’Keefe
In his essay "Language/Mind/Writing," Alan Davies writes, "The mind is the actions in thought of a life." In The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector writes: “When living is realized, the question will be…
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NaPoWriMo Poems Day #30: Finish Line
Ahoy, scribblers! You've reached the finish line! How do you feel? Awesome, I hope, because you are. Along with smart and pretty. If you didn't write a poem everyday, who cares? If you did,…
